From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 24 14:01:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23785 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:01:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23780 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA17112; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:01:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:01:11 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199901242201.RAA17112@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) In-Reply-To: <199901242111.NAA05078@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199901242110.QAA17006@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199901242111.NAA05078@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering > of nodes. Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far more sense than a name -- pretty much anything in any network stack other than Chaosnet, for example. If any of us ever make good on the threat of SNMP integration, having fixed numerical identifiers will be a requirement. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message